On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 16:36, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > Hotmail no longer runs on FreeBSD. Microsoft transitioned to MS > platforms a while back. There has been a lot press lately about a > leaked internal report from Microsoft regarding the transition process. > Basically, the internal report speaks very hightly of *nix on the whole > and in some ways degrades Windows. Check it out at: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html > The article is entitled "MS paper touts Unix in Hotmail's Win2k switch." > And there are also a link to what is apparently the actual document. > It's worth a read. > > Nathan >
Err.., I'll be willing to pay to see anyone "of note" at Hotmail who is willing to categorically state that Hotmail does not use FreeBSD. Don't believe *everything* you read :-) Of course.., if you know better, then...., Regards, Stacey > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 11:51:08AM +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Not to mention a few others like:- > > Hotmail > > ClaraNET > > Playboy > > Sony > > UUNET > > > > To name a few. I came in late on this, but thought it worth mentioning > > the above, just in case they got neglected. > > > > Regards, > > Stacey > > > > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 11:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:53:40AM -0600, Chad Albert wrote: > > > > For Web servers, netcraft can help you out too. In particular, their > > > > "longest uptime on the internet" page may be of particular interest if you > > > > are pro FreeBSD. > > > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > > > > No really, you see Linux on the list every once in a while ;-) > > > > > > One thing I haven't seen enough mention made of in this context are a > > > few interesting sites running FreeBSD. Let's see: everyone here > > > should know about Yahoo.com by now... > > > > > > Then there's apache.org: > > > > > > http://www.netcraft.com/Survey/Reports/200211/developers/apache.html > > > > > > Netcraft themselves: > > > > > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.netcraft.com > > > > > > Lets see: that's the biggest site on the Internet (or so I hear --- > > > certainly it's in the top ten), the people who make the world's most > > > popular HTTP server software and the people whose business it is to know > > > just about everything there is to know about web serving. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Matthew > > -- > > Stacey Roberts > > B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science > > > > Web: www.vickiandstacey.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
